When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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